DailyDirt: Educations? We Don't Need No Stinkin' Educations!

from the urls-we-dig-up dept

The solution to a variety of problems always seems to point to better education. But what do we do when education itself is the problem? There are folks who are trying to shift schools more towards vocational training camps, but some educators still think that the goal of education isn't just to create more employees. Here are just some interesting links on the topic of learning.

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Pixelation,

I think you've correctly pointed out that there's not a direct causation relationship between a good education and good economic performance... But it'd be nice to have a better educated population, too. :P

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Please tell me you're being sarcastic.

If you're talking about how Japan doesn't require students to go to school past 15 and therefore their system is worse than your US system, Cuba pays for your med school. Does that mean US is worse than Cuba?

It's not a RIGHT to go to school, it's being pushed as mandatory. Japanese kids still have the right, they just choose not to exercise it.

Most other countries also have a world map and students who can pin 25 countries up. You try doing that with American kids.

i think for a while now its been clear to most of us, that smart ppl isn't what Governments and larger corporations want as a matter of fact that's the last thing they are looking for, so "There are folks who are trying to shift schools more towards vocational training camps" is exactly what they need to do.

The education monoply

I'd admit that when I was in school, I used to believe in public education, but ever since my state's funding system was found to be unlawful under the state's own constitution, the only solution has been to cut the funding further. Lately, I've seen compelling arguments are a more "free market" system, where schools compete for public funding and/or direct tuition. Schools that fail to make the grade just simply lose funding, and students. Sure, a students can currently use their public tax dollars to attend neighboring districts if the local school is doing badly, but that doesn't help much when those are mostly more of the same. There are private schools too. Most people can't afford the additional expense, however, because their tax dollars were locked into the public system, which of course fought to prevent the current voucher system being extended to private schools. I suppose it's just another classic case of how monopolistic systems originally created for the advancement of society can become coopted by their own self-interest.